And even Moonstruck - for some reason the audience were just in the mood for a very romantic film, because it's one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.
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And I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic.
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But Madonna has a small amount of talent when it comes to movies.
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Every generation deals with the breaking down of its tradition, and I think that they rediscovered the film.
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Everything Sholom Aleichem talks about in his plays and his short stories is about people, family, man's relationship with his God, the breaking down of tradition.
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I don't like to think that maybe I'm just getting old. I'm not too excited about watching a huge explosion. I'm more interested in people and characters.
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I mean they're making remakes of my films and I'm not even dead yet! Why would you want to make a remake?
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I still get a lot of material but I find that as one gets older you get more fussy. You know you're going spend a year or a year and a half on this and you know there are only so many films in you so you get a little bit more selective.
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I think I've done pretty well. I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards, so I don't have any complaints.
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I think you get better as you get older.
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I was really excited to have the opportunity to make Fiddler.
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I work with a lot of movie stars.
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I'm going to do an adaptation of the Italian film, Bread and Tulips. I really like that film.
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I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy.
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In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio.
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It's an entire industry focusing on young male viewers that want action and violence. They sell us something that isn't valid. They're selling films like a product.
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Michael Caine is a movie star, but he's also a great actor. I can't say that about every movie star. It's the concentration he has.
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Moonstruck... was one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.
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We also have a tendency to root for the fugitive. We're always on the side of the animal being chased.
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Well, you know the old line - to be nominated is what it's all about. I think that I've done pretty well - I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards in total, so I don't really have any complaints.
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When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda. If I wanted to do that, I'd make documentaries.
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When you shoot a musical, you're shooting to lipsynch tracks, so we had to figure out our choreography and work out what we wanted to do with each number before we did it.
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